Bois Noir
The opening is austere—guaiac and cedar stripped of sweetness, almost charred in their dryness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Woody70
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Labdanum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is austere—guaiac and cedar stripped of sweetness, almost charred in their dryness. There's an immediate severity here, a woody frame that refuses to soften or flatter. As it settles, sandalwood and patchouli introduce a subdued earthiness, but even these familiar materials feel restrained, darker than usual, as though filtered through smoke or shadow.
Labdanum and musk in the base add weight without warmth. The overall effect is monochromatic: a study in grey-brown woods, mineral rather than resinous, with none of the amber glow typically associated with dark fragrances. It sits close to the skin, projecting very little, and maintains its austere character throughout the wear.
This suits someone drawn to minimalism in scent, who prefers woods rendered stark rather than sensual. It's nocturnal without being romantic, architectural without being cold—a woodpile at dusk rather than a forest at dawn.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
